‘That we are able to see with our eyes is no power of ours; but it is in our power that we make a good or a bad use of our eyes … the fact that we have the power of accomplishing every good thing by action, speech and thought comes from him who has endowed us with this possibility, and also assists it.’44 The consequence was that Pelagius believed that the nature of a ‘Holy Church’ was based on the holiness of its members: exactly what the Donatists said about the Church, and so particularly liable to arouse Augustine’s fury.45
